Along with others, in my formative years I drank bud products and corona when I wanted to splurge. About 3 years or so ago I had Sweetwater's IPA and 420 and Motorboat. Since then I have not drank bud products, only craft beer. Then, as someone else mentioned, I got ahold of a two-hearted ale. I was sold.

Then about 8 months ago I had a couple of beers my friend had brewed and I remember thinking "Holy sh**, I could be brewing my own beer and drinking whatever I want!" That started the rapid, unstoppable move to build my home brewery. Thanks Justin!

Along with others, in my formative years I drank bud products and corona when I wanted to splurge. About 3 years or so ago I had Sweetwater's IPA and 420 and Motorboat. Since then I have not drank bud products, only craft beer. Then, as someone else mentioned, I got ahold of a two-hearted ale. I was sold.

Then about 8 months ago I had a couple of beers my friend had brewed and I remember thinking "Holy sh**, I could be brewing my own beer and drinking whatever I want!" That started the rapid, unstoppable move to build my home brewery. Thanks Justin!

I was always ahead of the curve. In high school, I drank Michelob Light, while everyone else was drinking Budweiser.

In college at UVM, we would drink Molson Brador - 6 % ( Canada was only about 45 minutes from school ), although we downed our share of Stroh's 30 packs and stuff we called Hiney Wine, which was a Bartel and James wine cooler ( $12 a case but the next morning made you feel like you had open heart surgery and they forgot to put the heart back in).

After college, Sam Adams ( mostly Boston Lager ) was my beer of choice, and it's been uphill from there.

Growing up in Michigan it was Bell's Oberon but I drank that not because it was an awesome beer but because that is what people in Michigan do in the spring and summer. I would have to say my gateway was during my graduate degree years in Buffalo being introduced to Flying Bison Oatmeal Stout and Great Lakes Edmund Fitzgerald. Two beers that changed my life...for the better.

I have come a long way since my years of drinking red dog and budwiser select.

Use to drink a lot of Leinenkugel's beers which at least exposed me to several different styles that I enjoyed. The eye opener though was one day at a swanky restaurant with my wife. I accidentally ordered a Three Philosophers and when it got to the table I was like "beer with cherry, gross." Well after 2 of them, my life was changed, and I was nearly unconscious.